This book offers a fresh insight into the methods adopted by Roman playwrightsin utilizing and recasting their Greek models. The author investigates thetechniqu... » 

This book offers a fresh insight into the methods adopted by Roman playwrightsin utilizing and recasting their Greek models. The author investigates thetechniques adopted by such authors as Livius Andronicus and Pacuvius andarrives at results which throw a new light on the influence which Hellenisticliterature exerted upon early Roman writers. «